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Hackley School is an independent, college-preparatory, non-sectarian, day and boarding school for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Founded in 1899, it became co-educational in 1970. Hackley challenges students to grow in character, scholarship and accomplishment, to offer unreserved effort, and to learn from our community's varying perspectives and backgrounds. Hackley believes that students will grow in character and responsibility by participating in structured activity that serves the needs of people outside the spheres of home and school. By committing their energy, time, and imagination to serving those needs, students can experience the satisfaction of helping others and can gain some appreciation of the complexity and concerns of the larger community.

Our mission is to secure gifts for Bridgeport Hospital by building extraordinary relationships. We match the philanthropic aspirations of donors with the highest-quality patient and family-centered services and advanced medical education to support the healthcare needs of our community.As part of the Yale New Haven Health System, Bridgeport Hospital is considered by many to be the best site for program innovation because of its close connection with its community, strong interdepartmental collaborations, and research orientation. Bridgeport Hospital primarily serves the Greater Bridgeport Area in Fairfield and New Haven Counties in Connecticut. Its renowned Connecticut Burn Center serves the entire State.

The mission of Vanderbilt VUMC is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, training and research. Through the exceptional capabilities and caring spirit of its people, VUMC is a comprehensive facility leading in the delivery of exemplary health care while improving the lives of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally. We combine transformative educational programs, compelling scientific discoveries and distinctive personalized care to achieve this goal. Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the Southeast choose VUMC for their health care because of our leadership in diverse areas from transplantation to outpatient ambulatory care, our medical science and our dedication to treating patients.

GeoHazards International works to reduce loss of life and suffering around the world in communities most at risk from earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and floods. Our vision is a world of self-reliant communities - rural and urban - that can continue their economic, political and cultural development unimpeded by natural disasters. GHI helps communities avert disaster by creating safer buildings, assessing geophysical hazards, helping governments affordably prepare, and educating residents about what to do in the face of high risk. GHI bridges the gap between scientific experts and the people in developing countries who want to take action. In each case we work with communities toward locally appropriate and lasting solutions.

Our goal is to help people live their final months as fully and peacefully as possible. High-quality healthcare is important at every stage of life and we consider it a privilege to walk alongside those who are facing terminal illness, coping with grief, or seeking to learn more about these profound experiences. Hospicare & Palliative Care Services, a community resource since 1983, provides hospice care for people of any age with any terminal diagnosis. Our palliative care service specializes in relief of pain, symptoms, and stress at any point in an illness. Additionally, our bereavement support services provide grief counseling and support groups to those who are grieving a loss. Our mission is to bring medical expertise and compassionate, respectful care to people and their loved ones at any stage of a life-threatening illness, and to provide information and education about advanced illness, dying, and bereavement to the entire community.

It is the mission of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. The Hospital combines the best clinical and administrative practices of all its divisions to build upon each Center's strengths to become the premier integrated academic health center in the United States. In concert with its two affiliated medical schools, the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University (formerly known as Cornell University Medical College) and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Hospital is committed to providing High quality and compassionate patient care; Outstanding clinical education to physicians, biomedical scientists, and other healthcare professionals; Innovative healthcare research and scientific discovery; Responsible and proactive community service; Unmatched service to patients, families, and visitors; and A safe work environment, competitive compensation, and the opportunity for career advancement to its staff.

The world's poorest children are at highest risk of the world's most expensive injuries -- burns and amputations. These sudden, life-changing trauma injuries can happen in a second without warning but require a lifetime of support. The world has ample resources in the form of medical care, rehabilitation therapy, and psychosocial support for trauma survivors, but it is not getting to the children who need it most. HandReach is working to bring together the best hands in the world to promote healing, rehabilitation, and the full development of human potential among the world's poorest and most badly-injured children. HandReach works at three levels: 1) Individuals: We facilitate the sharing of best practices across countries and institutions by educating clinicians, therapists, parents, and healers of all kinds. We also work to bring acute, reconstructive, and psychosocial care to children who are in great need of surgery or rehabilitation therapy that their families cannot possibly afford. 2) Institutions: We facilitate international clinics, sponsor training, develop technological resources, and arrange for the donation of needed equipment and supplies so that institutions can maximize their ability to treat complex injuries and promote full rehabilitation for children, regardless of income. 3) Society: We advocate for the needs of the poor to promote greater access to medical care, education, safer products, building materials, and work practices, and a place in society that includes greater access and acceptance for people with physical differences. We are working to develop a free international database of best practices in pediatric burn care and orthopedic rehabilitation that allows doctors and therapists to consult across the world on cases. This online resource database will be readily translatable into any language and provide short, detailed videos that address various aspects of excellent burn and orthopedic care -- from skin grafting to splinting to prosthetics to psychological support for children and families. If a child is burned in China, for instance, her doctor can provide details about the case, consult live expert clinicians internationally, and be directed to easily downloadable videos in Chinese to share with staff and the patient's family. HandReach's work would then be to spread the word of this database and foster face-to-face contact between clinics worldwide. HandReach's dream is for there to be nowhere in the world a child can be injured that is out of reach of excellent medical care and psychosocial support.

Mission in the Third Millennium challenges Maryknoll Sisters to respond as women yearning for authentic justice and reconciliation in the midst of a fractured and divided world.  Called to reflect God's compassionate and inclusive love, we are sent to walk with peoples of many lands, crossing the boundaries of culture, race and religious beliefs.     Maryknoll Sisters live the gospel values through a variety of ministries. We are engaged in evangelization, pastoral work, education and social welfare, medicine, communications, agriculture and science.  We serve the poor wherever we find them: in their homes, in prisons, in hospitals, in refugee camps, and on the streets.     Some of us work with youth groups, women and the elderly, and in the arts and communications.  Others promote and participate in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.  Often we find ourselves networking with national and international non‑governmental organizations.     Wherever we are and in whatever we do, we strive to participate effectively in the mission presence and activity of the Universal Church so that God's Reign of peace, justice and love may be proclaimed and witnessed to throughout the world.  Mission means seeding hope wherever we are.

The California School-Based Health Alliance (formerly the California School Health Centers Association) improves the health and academic success of children and youth by advancing health services in schools.  We envision a day when all of California's children and youth are healthy and achieving at their full potential. Since hiring our first paid staff in 2003, the Alliance has successfully grown to have an annual budget of more than $1,500,000 and thirteen staff.  We conduct policy work, promote the school based health center (SBHC) model, and assist SBHCs with program development to expand and strengthen school health services.  Our large network of collaborating partners includes 231 SBHCs, numerous school districts, federally qualified health centers and other providers, dozens of state and local policy organizations, and an e-communications network of more than 3,200 individuals. Our goal is to make school health centers an integral and sustainable part of the health care and educational systems. By putting health care where kids are – in schools – school health centers increase access to care and take health problems out of the classroom so that teachers can teach and students can learn.

Griffin Hospital’s mission is to provide personalized, humanistic, consumer-driven health care in a healing environment; to empower individuals to be actively involved in decisions affecting their care and well-being through access to information and education; and to provide leadership to improve the health of the community it serves.The Griffin Hospital of today can be characterized as a leading innovator in the healthcare field, grounded in a commitment to treating the whole person, to facilitating a superior patient experience, and to ensuring the highest levels of patient safety and medical outcomes. Griffin Hospital is known for creating its own future, rather than simply reacting to its environment, and to providing services in a way that anticipates and exceeds the highest expectations of those served. Seeking wholeness, rather than fragmentation, the physicians, staff and volunteers at Griffin Hospital are dedicated to rendering care that encompasses the mind, body and spirit and emphasizes prevention and wellness with a simple goal: to help members of the community Griffin serves live the happiest, healthiest lives possible.   Griffin has been the recipient of numerous quality, value and patient experience awards Griffin has received from the various national organizations that measure and monitor hospital performance. These awards recognize the exemplary care and service that Griffin’s talented and dedicated staff deliver to each and every patient served consistent with Griffin’s Planetree Patient-Centered Care model.  

Founded in 1965, the mission of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) is to provide, promote and protect access to reproductive health and sexuality education so that all people can make voluntary choices about their reproductive and sexual health. PPNNE works to achieve its mission with a three-pronged approach which includes provision of reproductive health care services, sexuality education and professional training, and public policy work to protect and enhance reproductive rights.

To sensitize the general community, Govt. and non-Govt. organizations, and parents of Special need children and provide evidence based primary and higher education to those differently able children through expanding the services, manpower, as well as the research and development programs in the field of Disability & rehabilitation.